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My Magnificent Magnolia
The picture above is my entry for the Picture This Contest on Gardening Gone Wild. I have Right Click inabled here, so THIS is a link to a downloadable picture. Magnolias are border line hardy in my neck of the woods, so this Magnolia kobus var. borealis that I bought in Sweden and planted in 2002 is a particular darling of mine. This year it is flowering with around a hundred flowers and it smells deliciously. While I took this picture I could hear the sound of a hundred thousand hockey fans celebrating (in the very very far distance) the Finnish Ice Hockey World Championship gold at the market square…
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Spring Sprint
Magnolia kobus var. borealis There is still a little snow behind my house, but even so: Spring has arrived! Taloni takana on vielä hiukan lunta, mutta siitä huolimatta: Kevät on täällä! Det finns ännu en aning snö bakom mitt hus, men trots det kan man säga att: Våren är här! Narcissus triandrus ‘Katie Heath’ Erythronium ‘Pagoda’ Plagiorhegma dubium – varjonäkki – presidentsippa Sanguinaria canadensis ‘Multiplex’ I got both the Sanguinaria canadensis ‘Multiplex’ and the Plagiorhegma dubium from a sweet old lady who was also an expert gardener back in 2004. She passed on a few years later and her garden has since been lost. I always remember her fondly when “her”…